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| Moonstruck: Verde Valley's contribution to the space race |
COTTONWOOD - Not far from the intersection of State Route 260 and Ogden Ranch Road, on the eastern edge of Cottonwood, lies a 35-acre patch of alien landscape.
Wednesday, September 08, 2010
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| Verde Valley Horsemen's Council: Just horsing around for 30 years |
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Wednesday, September 01, 2010
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| A Day in the Heart of Relationship |
VERDE VALLEY - Some statistics show that as many as 60 percent of relationships fail. Susan Henkels, a licensed social worker in Sedona, specializes in couples in distress. She wants to do something about those statistics.
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Tuesday, August 31, 2010
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| The Palmer Papers |
CAMP VERDE - Edward Palmer's introduction to the Verde Valley was about what he had expected.
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Tuesday, August 17, 2010
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| Trailblazer: Not tired of the circuit even after 800 loops |
COTTONWOOD - Some would get tired of the repetition, and Lee Gorby admits that sometimes he has to work himself up to the circuit, but day after day, year after year he has biked the Thumper Loop Trail at Dead Horse Ranch State Park.
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Tuesday, August 03, 2010
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| The Butterfly Lady |
CAMP VERDE - It has been argued that we all have a calling. The question is, do we heed the message?
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
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| Tennis pro pursues his life's passion |
COTTONWOOD - Former Cottonwood Parks & Recreation Director Rick Champion has returned to his lifelong passion of teaching tennis. To do so, he had to return from Hawaii to Cottonwood and then build his own tennis court.
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Tuesday, July 20, 2010
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| City of Cottonwood turns 50 |
In November, Cottonwood will mark a Golden milestone.
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
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| Column: Time-zone thinking |
Bella, my cockapoo, trotted contentedly beside me as we walked this morning. Not too long into our three-mile route, I became aware that my mind flitted restlessly in many different directions.
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
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| Column: Rain Hawks: Equipped for catching insects in flight |
People have been coming into Jay’s Bird Barn asking about a hawk or falcon-like bird flying erratically around street lights or near their homes at dusk. One excited customer said, “I’ve never seen a hawk with spots on its wings.”
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
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| The watering of the Verde Valley |
Looking down from Mingus Mountain, the Verde River appears as a thin green ribbon, occasionally hidden beneath a canopy of Arizona sycamores and Freemont cottonwoods.
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Tuesday, July 06, 2010
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| June January: 90 years old and still working full time, with no thoughts of retiring |
COTTONWOOD - June January turned 90 last Friday. Her co-workers at Selna and Associates Real Estate and Investments threw a birthday party for her and two other employees. She thought that was great, a lot of fun. But this week things are back to her normal routine, a routine that June has followed for more than a quarter of a century.
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
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| Chinese also came to Jerome, but not to stay |
Immigrants came from all over the world to share in the riches and hard labor in the Jerome copper mines during their discoveries and explosion of the late 1800s and early 1900s. There were Slavs, Italians, Irish and Mexicans. Many who came to work in the mines moved with the jobs when the mines closed or stayed and homesteaded or ranched and continued their livelihoods in Jerome and the Verde Valley.
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Wednesday, June 23, 2010
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| Remaking Your Home in 'Green' |
John Neville, was part of the Earth Day smelting pot in 1970, and, today, is president of Sustainable Arizona, a clearinghouse on living and building green (http://www.sustainablearizona.org/).
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
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| Sharing a little puppy gratitude |
Ever since our dog, Cookie, died almost three years ago, I have been dogless. It’s not that I didn’t want another dog much sooner. Since my husband, Steve, is not the animal lover that I am, I had promised to honor his request to wait awhile before bringing another canine companion into our lives.
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
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| The Verde Formation: A story that holds water |
There is no greater puzzle in the world than the world itself. When we look out across the landscape, we see not only rocks and rivers, hills and valleys, cliffs and canyons but also a record of the past.
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009
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| Smoke Gets In Your Eyes: When smelter smoke reigned |
JEROME - The mineral wealth beneath Jerome is contained within a rare ore deposit known to geologists as a volcanogenic massive sulfide.
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009
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| The Killer Flu of 1918 |
With news reports about a possible swine flu epidemic and constant references to the Spanish Influenza epidemic of 1918, a look into what happened in the upper Verde Valley during the 1918 outbreak might provide insight into an epidemic.
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
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| Esther and Charles Miller celebrate 70th anniversary |
It all started with a broken date. Now it includes four more generations, careers in aviation and art - and 70 years of memories.
Saturday, October 10, 2009
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| Red Rock Secret Canyon:
A secret worth knowing |
If not for a high voltage power line, Red Rock Secret Mountain wilderness would likely have been married to Sycamore Canyon when it was created in 1984.
Friday, October 09, 2009
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